Now here's a reddit comment that made my day.
From here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/8v80l/as_obama_talked_about_the_power_of_the_neda_video/c0ajhyc
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> Maybe I'm wrong here, but wouldn't she just be an average journalist if this was say, anytime before 1970?
This is a surprisingly common belief that there was a "good ol' days." There wasn't. What happens is we look back through rose-colored glasses and we only see the reporting which was notable and remembered.
40 years from now, people are going to look back at our time and they're only going to see stories of Helen Thomas sticking up for responsible journalism and they're going to think "why aren't reporters today like those of the early 2000's when there were lots of journalists like Helen Thomas who asked uncomfortable questions to the President?"
